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A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness
(2021)
This is the first chapter in Timothy Killeen's meticulously researched two-volume study of the challenges facing the fight to preserve the Amazon rainforest. A comprehensive work that will be essential reading for anyone ...
Changing Deserts
(2012)
Deserts – vast, empty places where time appears to stand still. The very word conjures images of endless seas of sand, blistering heat and a virtual absence of life. However, deserts encompass a large variety of landscapes ...
The Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of Public Space
(2024)
In this volume, Mark Luccarelli pushes past unproductive mind/body debates by rooting the rise of environmental awareness in the political and geographical history of the US. Considering history in terms of the categorical ...
Entire of Itself?
(2024)
The study of islands is booming. Small wonder: islands have played a key role in the history of continents, have been crucial locales of state-making, have served dictatorships as sites of prison systems and have acted as ...
The Return of Malthus
(2023)
The Return of Malthus is the first comprehensive analysis of the post-war fear of scarcity. Linnér traces the development of an international discourse of crisis through the influence of such thinkers as William Vogt, ...
Mount Sacred
(2023)
Mount Kailash in Asia, the Black Hills in North America, Uluru in Australia: around the globe there are numerous mountains that have been and continue to be attributed sacredness. Worship of these mountains involves prayer, ...
Paradise Blues
(2024)
Paradise Blues is an unconventional history of the United States of America, an unusual travel guide that follows and renders visible the country’s paths of nature, history and civilisation. Christof Mauch is a leading ...
Environmental and Social Justice in the City
(2011)
The world is full of environmental injustices and inequalities, yet few European historians have tackled these subjects head on; nor have they explored their relationships with social inequalities. In this innovative ...
The Age of the Soybean
(2022)
The soybean is far more than just a versatile crop whose derivates serve the protein needs of a meatless diet. One of the world’s most important commodities, soy represents the embodiment of mechanised industrial agriculture ...
Green Development or Greenwashing?
(2023)
Finland has often been labelled a ‘green superpower’, lauded as one of the world’s cleanest and greenest countries. Nordic countries in general have tended to be idealised as ‘pristine and green’, in contrast to the rest ...